S3 bucket is missing a CostCenter tag
- Severity
- Low
- Service
- Tagging
- Check ID
- S3_MISSING_COST_CENTER_TAG
What this check finds
The S3 bucket has no 'CostCenter' tag. S3 storage costs can be significant; without cost-center attribution, storage spend cannot be chargeback-allocated to the responsible business unit.
Passing looks like: S3 buckets have a CostCenter tag.
How to fix it
Add a CostCenter tag.
AWS CLI
aws s3api put-bucket-tagging --bucket BUCKET_NAME --tagging 'TagSet=[{Key=CostCenter,Value=UNIT}]'Enforce via AWS Config required-tags rule or tag policies.
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Compliance
This is an operational hygiene check. It flags something worth tidying rather than a control an auditor asks for, so it is not mapped to a compliance framework.
Checked on every scan
KloudLytics runs this check each time it scans a connected AWS account, through a read-only role, and lists every affected resource with its region. On Pro and Business a fix is written for the specific resource rather than the general case above. The exact access it needs